Welcome

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ALELM (Arabic Language Engineering and Learning Modeling ) is a research group at the Mohammadia School of Engineers, Mohammed Vth University, Rabat, Morocco. This research group is directed by Prof Karim Bouzoubaa and has professors and Ph.D. Students working on multiple computer science topics in the scope of Artificial Intelligence. In the last 10 years, the group is mainly active in the Arabic Language Engineering discipline. Presentations of our main projets can be seen at our youtube channel.

TOPICS

Natural Language Processing

Arabic Text Engineering

Information Retrieval and QA Systems

Frameworks for NLP Development

Linguistics Resources

Morphological and Syntactic partie

Arabic Dialect Processing

Semantic Parsing

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is “the set of theories and techniques used to create machines capable of simulating human intelligence”

Multi-Agent Systems

A multi-agent system (MAS or “self-organized system”) is a computerized system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents.Multi-agent systems can solve problems that are difficult or impossible for an individual agent or a monolithic system to solve. Intelligence may include methodic, functional, procedural approaches, algorithmic search or reinforcement learning.

PROJECTS

Current Research Projects

SAFAR: Software Architecture For Arabic Processing

MURABAA (SQUARE): Digital Platform for the Arabic Word Structure

TAALEEM: an Arabic Learning applications

Games Corner: Kalimat

Past Research Projects

Sibawayh Repository for Arabic Language Processing

Arabic Question/Answering

Development of an extended version of AWN (The official international Arabic Wordnet)

Iraki Arabic WordNet

SEWAC: SEmantic Wordnet of ArabiC

Mobile applications

EMI find : Location application within EMI

MEDictionary: Translation of medical terms (English, Arabic and French) in three domains (general, dental and pharmacy)

Pediatric immuno diseases terms translation

PharmaTerms: Translation of terms (English, Arabic and French) in the field of Galenic Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology

Al Wassit Arabic dictionary (“الوسيط”)

RESOURCES

Lexicon

Arabic WordNet ontology

Characters lexicon

Clitics (Enclitics/Proclitics)

Stop-words(Special nouns/Special verbs/Particles)

MORALEX-Morphology

Triliteral roots

Phonetic rules phonology

Addressed Arabic phonetic rules

Broken plural list

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Dictionary

“Al wassit” Arabic dictionary

Contemporary

MADED

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Corpus

CLEF-TREC Q/A

Morphological evaluation

Stemming evaluation NAFIS Gold Standard

Quranic stemming evaluation

LID-language Identification

Manual spell checking

Arabic ACL corpus

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Models

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Publications

Journals

H. Salah El Fahal, M. Nasri, K. Bouzoubaa, A. Kabbaj, “Resources for developing an Arabic Controlled Language”, In International Journal of Computer Science Trends and Technology – IJCST, Volume 9 Issue 6, Nov-Dec 2021

Darwish, K., Habash, N., Abbas, M., Al-Khalifa, H., Al-Natsheh, H. T., Bouamor, H., K. Bouzoubaa, V. Cavalli-Sforza, S. El-Beltagy, W. El-Hajj, M. Jarrar & Mubarak, H. A panoramic survey of natural language processing in the Arab world. Communications of the ACM, 64(4), 72-81, 2021

Tachicart, R., Bouzoubaa, K. “Moroccan Arabic vocabulary generation using a rule-based approach”. Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences, 2021

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Books chapter

D. Namly, K. Bouzoubaa, A. El Jihad, S. L. Aouragh, “Improving Arabic Lemmatization through a lemmas database and a machine-learning technique”, In book: Studies in Computational Intelligence: Recent advances in NLP: the case of Arabic language. November, 2019.

Tachicart R., Bouzoubaa K., “Towards Automatic Normalization of the Moroccan Dialectal Arabic User Generated Text”, In book: Arabic Language Processing: From Theory to Practice, October 2019, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32959-4_19 (The Google best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Arabic Language Processing, Nancy, France)

D. Namly, K. Bouzoubaa, R. Tajmout, A. Laadimi, “On Arabic Stop-Words: A Comprehensive List and a Dedicated Morphological Analyzer”, In book: Arabic Language Processing: From Theory to Practice, October 2019, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32959-4_11

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Conferences

M. Ouamer, R. Tajmout, K. Bouzoubaa, “Arabic Broken Plural Model Based on the Broken Pattern”, In International Conference on Digital Technologies and Applications, January 2022

K. Tnaji, K. Bouzoubaa, L. Aouragh, “Arabic light POS Tagger”, the first Morocco AI conference, December 2021

M. Ouamer, K. Bouzoubaa, R. Tajmout, “Broken plural extraction using machine learning techniques”, the first Morocco AI conference, December 2021 – NVIDIA 3rd Best Paper Award

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Funding

Samsung Electronics Levant/Jordan for the project “Speech MSA corpora by Moroccan and Tunisian recorders” (April 2016)

The research of Lahsen Abouenour is carried out in the framework of the grant provided by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Ref. SGRT. 38/T13. (2013-2016)

University of Montreal, Visiting the computer science department and giving a seminar, (September 2014)

Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) for the project “ Development of an Arabic ontology ” , (August 2012)

Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC-Univ of Pennsylvania) for a joint project (EMI – AUI), “Devlopment of the Iraki AWN“, (Marsh 2012)

Mohamed Vth University – Agdal for the project “Developing an Arabic QA system“, (September 2011)

Moroccan-Spanish Cooperation Commission for the project, “Extension and enrichment of the Arabic Wordnet as an Arabic linguistic resource” , (January 2010)

Moroccan-Spanish Cooperation Commission for the project, “Arabic Question/Answering System using intelligent Agents“, (January 2008)

“National Research Centre of Morocco” for the project, “Development of tools and language resources for machine translation between Arabic and Italian” , (Marsh 2004)

“National Research Centre of Morocco” for the project “New Information technologies in B2B (Electronic Commerce Business-To -Business) ” (July 2001)

“R&D Maroc” (Morocco Research and Development) for the project “Using Artificial Intelligence techniques and new technologies in Electronic Commerce B2B (Electronic Commerce Business-To-Business)” (February 2001)

Members

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Professors

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Karim Bouzoubaa

Professor
karim.bouzoubaa@emi.ac.ma
Mohammed V University in Rabat

Driss Namly

Professor
namly_driss@yahoo.fr
Mohammed V University in Rabat

Abdelhamid El Jihad

Professor
jihad.hamid@gmail.com
Mohammed V University in Rabat

Rachida Tajmout

Professor
tajmoutrachida@yahoo.fr
Mohammed V University in Rabat

Hakima Khamar

Professor
khamarhaki@gmail.com
Mohammed V University in Rabat

Jamal Ez-Zouaine

Professor
jamal.ezzouaine@gmail.com
Mohammed V University in Rabat

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Associate members

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PhD Student
namly_driss@yahoo.frMohammed V University in Rabat

Hamid Jaafar

Professor
jaafarhamid1973@gmail.com
Hassan II University – Casablanca

Lhoussain Aouragh

Professor
l.aouragh@um5r.ac.ma
Mohammed V University in Rabat

Abdellah Yousfi

Professor
yousfi240ma@yahoo.fr
Mohammed V University in Rabat

Adil Kabbaj

Professor
adil.kabbaj@gmail.com
National School of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA)

Ridouane Tachicart

Professor
tachicart@gmail.com
Chouaib Doukkali University

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Phd Students

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Khalid Tnaji

PhD Student
khalidtnaji@gmail.com
Mohammed V University in Rabat

Mariame Ouamer

PhD Student
mariame.ouamer@gmail.com
Mohammed V University in Rabat

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Past Students

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Driss Namly

PhD Student
namly_driss@yahoo.fr
“Comprehensiveness and interoperability of lexical resources for the Arabic language: acquisition, design, evaluation and exploitation”
Mohammed V University in Rabat

Mohamed Nasri

PhD Student
Mohammed.nasri@gmail.com
“Integration of an NLP component in an Intelligent system platform”
Mohammed V University in Rabat

Ridouane Tachicart

PhD Student
tachicart@gmail.com
“Moroccan Arabic NLP Architecture Using Knowledge-Based and Machine Learning Methods”
Mohammed V University in Rabat

Lahsen Abouenour

PhD Student
abouenour@yahoo.fr
“Three-levels Approach for Arabic Question-Answering Systems”
Mohammed V University in Rabat

Younes Jaafar

PhD Student
“Towards Standardization and enhancement of Arabic Natural Language Processing via the establishment of the SAFAR framework”
Mohammed V University in Rabat

Younes Arrim

Master Student
younes@netmat.com
“Development of Safar 1.0 front-end”
AbdelMalek Essaidi University – Tangier

Mossab Batal

Master Student
leadermossab@gmail.com
“Benchmarking of NLP Modules and development of SAFAR 4.0”
Hassan II University – Casablanca

Salaheddine Lachkar

Master Student
lachkar.se@gmail.com
“Capturing Job Needs and Prospects using NLP techniques”
Hassan II University – Casablanca

Khalid Tnaji

Master Student
khalidtnaji@gmail.com
“Development of a light Arabic POS Tagger”
Hassan II University – Casablanca

Mariame Ouamer

Master Student
mariame.ouamer@gmail.com
“Applying ML algorithms on Arabic broken plurals”
Hassan II University – Casablanca

Mohamed El Filali

Master Student
mohamed-elfilali@um5r.ac.ma
“Software engineering of the Safar framework 4.0”
Mohammed V University in Rabat

Ismail Akkouz

Master Student
ismail.akouz@gmail.com
“arabic speech recognition”
Mohammed V University in Rabat

Merieme Amjahdi

Master Student
meriemamjahdi54@gmail.com
“Bilingual Social Media Processing, Sentiment Analysis and automatic Summarization”
Hassan II University – Casablanca

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